Gross-Gerau

 

       The postcard below depicts the synagogue located in Gross-Gerau, a town south of Frankfurt.  A Jewish community was established in 1738.  The number of Jews in 1885 was 141 (4% of the total population) and 161 in 1925 (3% of the total population).  Nearly all the Jews left after 1933, and on Novemver 4, 1940, the town was declared Judenrein (free of Jews).  The synagogue depicted in the postcard below was built in 1892 and destroyed during Kristallnacht.  

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References

Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, P. 461-62

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